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The Long Goodbye

Meghan O'Rourke

Hardcover | Pages: 306 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 3097 Users | 478 Reviews

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Title	:	The Long Goodbye
Author	:	Meghan O'Rourke
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 306 pages
Published	:	April 14th 2011 by Riverhead Books
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Death. Biography Memoir. Psychology

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What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond.

O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss.

With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.

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Original Title:	The Long Goodbye
ISBN:	1594487987 (ISBN13: 9781594487989)
Edition Language:	English

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I thought this book was good, but I still only gave it three stars. I'm sure that reflects my own bias more than the quality of her writing. My theory is that grief is such a personal experience, it's almost impossible to write an account that will resonate with everyone. While I could relate to a lot of what the author wrote, I mostly felt a disconnect between her grief process and my own. First of all, I couldn't relate to her statement that losing a mother is the worst thing that can happen

I wavered b/t 3 and 4 stars but rounded up when I thought about all the impressive and eclectic research this young writer did in trying to come to grips with her mother's death. She is both more scholarly and poetic than I was when I did my own research after the death of my older brother. I lean more toward psychology and the spiritual; I got the strong sense this writer is an atheist. Also - I was hoping to see in her bibliography/credits something by Polly Young-Eisendrath, a

I wavered b/t 3 and 4 stars but rounded up when I thought about all the impressive and eclectic research this young writer did in trying to come to grips with her mother's death. She is both more scholarly and poetic than I was when I did my own research after the death of my older brother. I lean more toward psychology and the spiritual; I got the strong sense this writer is an atheist. Also - I was hoping to see in her bibliography/credits something by Polly Young-Eisendrath, a

The Long Goodbye is one of the best books I have read this year. It was moving and at times brought me to tears.After reading Meghan O'Rourke's book of poetry, Sun in Days, I wanted to find out more about the author and wound up on her Wikipedia page and eventually on the author's own page. I don't actively seek out books about grief and mourning...my mother died in 2013 and the moving on part for me came about 9 months down the road but I still look back at the guilt and sadness I had at the

At a time when our culture is open to just about everything, there is one taboo the grief experienced upon losing a loved one. Or, as the author herself puts it, If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.It is one of those exquisitely personal transactions that lead me to this courageous and empathetic memoir. As I lose my own aging mother, little by little, I have entered a pre-mourning period that is often challenging for myself to navigate and

I'm not sure if I chose this book or this book chose me, but either way, I'm glad beyond words that we found each other. In the fifteen months since my mother's passing, I've found precious few books that do justice to the navigation of the complicated -- to be entirely too euphemistic -- new world in which the newly bereaved find themselves. Reading this made me feel less alone than I've felt in a long time -- fifteen months, to be exact -- and for that, I thank the author from the bottom of my

Such a beautiful book. I re-read so many parts because she was so spot on with the grief a Mother's death brings.